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unusual facts about Louis Michel


Jean-Louis Michel

Jean-Louis served as a soldier in the French army under Napoleon.


C. Leon Broutin

A pupil of his father (himself a pupil of the famous Jean-Louis Michel), Broutin succeeded in operning his own fencing school in Madrid and wrote a treaty of fencing El Arte de la Esgrima, with a preface written by the marqués de Altavilla, published in 1893.

Rik Torfs

Between 2007 and 2009, he had his own 'conversation' program at Canvas called Nooitgedacht (Never Thought), a series of 30 in-depth conversations with notable guests, including Wilfried Martens, Guy Verhofstadt, Louis Michel, Philippe Claudel, Kamagurka and Liesbeth List.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

On 1 September 1985, a joint French-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution identified the location of the wreck of the RMS Titanic which sank off the coast of Newfoundland 15 April 1912.


see also

Louis Michel Français Doyère

Louis Michel Français Doyère (born 28 January 1811 in Saint-Michel-des-Essartiers; died 1863 in Corsica) was a French zoologist and agronomist.